Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement

[Mike Holloway]

Subin, have a look through cgi.cfg

-mike


On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Subin Shakya wrote:

>
> Andreas, Thanks for your advice.  But, FYI, I have done what I could
> before I painfully signed up and advertised  my issue on this list.
>
> By the way, I am novice on Nagios (heck also with Linux) and took me a
> while to build the Nagios system which I am extremely proud of.
>
> What do you think? Can you pass your knowledge to me now?
>
> - Subin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:27 AM
> To: Subin Shakya
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication
> requirement
>
> Subin Shakya wrote:
>>  I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require  
>> any
>>     kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'.  How  
>> can I
>> do
>>     that?
>>     I do not know where to go in Nagios config to make this happen.
>>     TIA, Symuser
>>     =0D
>>     Right now when I select a Host to schedule a downtime I get:
>>     =0D
>>     Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that...
>>     It seems that you have chosen to not use the authentication
>>     functionality of the CGIs.
>>     I don't want to be personally responsible for what may happen  
>> as a
>>     result of allowing unauthorized users to issue commands to
> Nagios,so
>>     you'll have to disable this safeguard if you are really stubborn
> and
>>     want to invite trouble.
>>     Read the section on CGI authentication in the HTML documentation
> to
>>     learn how you can enable authentication and why you should want
> to.
>>
>
> Nagios is more polite than I am. RTFM and do some thinking and you'll
> find the answer.
>
> On a sidenote; I know the answer but I'm not interested in giving  
> it to
> you when you haven't even bothered trying to find it for yourself.
>
> --
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